A Canadian animator who is best known for his work on the children’s TV show, “My Little Pony,” has been sentenced to 28 months in prison for possessing more than 60,000 child exploitation images—also known as “child porn”—and sharing them with others online.

Tom Wysom, 55, worked on TV productions such as “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” and “Littlest Pet Shop,” according to the Internet Movie Database.

Wysom pled guilty to child porn charges in December and was sentenced earlier in July. In October 2017, police found 60,165 images in his home—many of them duplicates—along with 1,626 videos, some of which depicted adults engaging in sexual acts with children. In some of the disturbing images, young girls had their hands and feet bound.

In a pre-sentence report, presented to court, Wysom told a probation officer that he developed an addiction to adult pornography about a decade ago, but slowly became desensitized to it and “needed something more.” He turned to child pornography, Wysom said, which became a way to deal with his clinical depression and other medical issues.

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